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1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 318 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9780511608377
Content:
In recent years dinosaurs have captured the attention of the public at an unprecedented scale. At the heart of this resurgence in popular interest is an increased level of research activity, much of which is innovative in the field of palaeontology. For instance, whereas earlier palaeontological studies emphasized basic morphologic description and taxonomic classification, modern studies attempt to examine the role and nature of dinosaurs as living animals. More than ever before, we understand how these extinct species functioned, behaved, interacted with each other and the environment, and evolved. Nevertheless, these studies rely on certain basic building blocks of knowledge, including facts about dinosaur anatomy and taxonomic relationships. One of the purposes of this volume is to unravel some of the problems surrounding dinosaur systematics and to increase our understanding of dinosaurs as a biological species. Dinosaur Systematics presents a current overview of dinosaur systematics using various examples to explore what is a species in a dinosaur, what separates genders in dinosaurs, what morphological changes occur with maturation of a species, and what morphological variations occur within a species
Content:
Clades and grades in dinosaur systematics / Paul C. Sereno -- Shape analysis in the study of dinosaur morphology / Ralph E. Chapman -- Morphometric study of Plateosaurus from Trossingen (Baden-Württemberg, Federal Republic of Germany) / David B. Weishampel and Ralph E. Chapman -- Species determination in sauropod dinosaurs with tentative suggestions for their classification / John S. McIntosh -- Variation in theory and in theropods / Ralph E. Molnar -- Variation in Coelophysis bauri / Edwin H. Colbert -- Morphological variation in small theropods and its meaning in systematics : evidence from Syntarsus rhodesiensis / Michael A. Raath -- Theropod teeth from the Judith River Formation of southern Alberta, Canada / Philip J. Currie, J. Keith Rigby, Jr. and Robert E. Sloan
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On the status of the ceratopsids Monoclonius and Centrosaurus / Peter Dodson -- Triceratops : an example of flawed systematics / John H. Ostrom and Peter Wellnhofer -- Stegosaurs of Asia / Dong Zhiming -- Teeth and taxonomy in ankylosaurs / Walter P. Coombs, Jr. -- Ankylosaur systematics : example using Panoplosaurus and Edmontonia (Ankylosauria: Nodosauridae) / Kenneth Carpenter -- A name for the trace of an act : approaches to the nomenclature and classification of fossil vertebrate footprints / William A.S. Sarjeant
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The systematic position of Baryonyx walkeri in the light of Gauthier's reclassification of the theropoda / Alan J. Charig and Angela C. Milner -- Variation in Tyrannosaurus rex / Kenneth Carpenter -- A review of Vectisaurus valdensis with comments on the family Iguanodontidae / David B. Norman -- Morphometric observations on hadrosaurid ornithopods / Ralph E. Chapman and Michael K. Brett-Surman -- Evidence of diphyletic origination of the hadrosaurian (Reptilia: Ornithischia) dinosaurs / John R. Horner -- Morphometric landmarks of pachycephalosaurid cranial material from the Judith River Formation of northcentral Montana / Mark B. Goodwin -- New data on parrot-beaked dinosaurs (Psittacosaurus) / Paul C. Sereno -- The ceratopsian subfamily Chasmosaurinae : sexual dimorphism and systematics / Thomas M. Lehman
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521366724
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521438100
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521366724
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511608377
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